Mindfulness. It's talked about a lot, but what is it really?

Can mindfulness really change your life for the better?

Can your mind be too busy to practice it?

In this episode I'll explain how I practice mindfulness and what it's done to help me. Plus there's a short mindfulness meditation for you if you stick around until the end.

Thanks and I hope you enjoy the episode!

The challenges we face in the future are global in nature and so we need to approach them with a global mindset.

In this episode I talk about:

A lot of this is based on my own personal experiences and experiments that I share in the episode.

I hope you enjoy it and do let me know your thoughts!

This week on the podcast I interviewed Christine Coulson. Christine is a life coach who specialises in helping people to quit alcohol or rethink their relationship with drinking.

I've been sober for almost 3 years myself and I learned loads. I hope you will too.

We talk about:

Christine's "Book for a Brighter Future" is:

Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health by Prof. David Nutt

Her "Song for a Brighter Future" is:

Perfect by Pink

If you want to get in touch with Christine, her details are:

⁠LinkedIn⁠

⁠Website⁠

I hope you enjoy the episode!

This one was a really, REALLY hard subject to record!

As we've looked at before, building a brighter future will mean we need to work with people who aren't like us. Maybe even they've harmed us in some way, or we them.

Building a brighter future is going to need us all to build some bridges.

In this episode I talk about:

A lot of this is based on my own personal experiences and experiments that I share in the episode.

I hope you enjoy it and do let me know your thoughts!

To build a brighter future will require lots of us working together. Many different people, from varied backgrounds and with diverse views.

For that to be successful, we're going to have to learn to understand other people and to be respectful of our differences.

In this episode I talk about:

A lot of this is based on my own personal experiences and experiments that I share in the episode.

I hope you enjoy it and do let me know your thoughts!

Have you ever spent time around someone truly joyful? It's great isn't it? So how do more of us develop lives filled with more joy? That's the theme of Idea 6 of my Manifesto for a Brighter Future - Spread Joy.

In this episode I talk about:

A lot of this is based on my own personal experiences and experiments that I share in the episode.

I hope you enjoy it and do let me know your thoughts!

Imagine a world where everyone was kinder, more generous and more compassionate to one another. It'd be a pretty nice place to live, right? That's the theme of Idea 5 of my Manifesto for a Brighter Future - Be Kind.

In this episode I talk about:

A lot of this is based on my own personal experiences and experiments that I share in the episode.

I hope you enjoy it and do let me know your thoughts!

As I said in the last episode, we need to keep learning, and there's lots of information out there to help us. BUT this information isn't all the same quality and so we'll have to be very selective about what we take on board. We all need to learn to think more critically.

In this episode I talk about:

A lot of this is based on my own personal experiences and experiments that I share in the episode.

I hope you enjoy it and do let me know your thoughts!

In this episode I'm exploring Idea 3 from my Manifesto for a Brighter Future - Keep learning.

No one has all of the answers we need. No one. The best leaders are all lifelong learners - constantly seeking out new knowledge in their areas of interest and expertise.

In this episode I talk about:

A lot of this is based on my own personal experiences and experiments that I share in the episode.

I hope you enjoy it and do let me know your thoughts!

Jeff Krehmer is an engineer and innovative thinker whose written a fascinating book about our future challenges.

In "Infinite Resources" Jeff explores some of the biggest problems that we face a global society. Crucially though he's applied his engineer's mind to propose some truly radical solutions!

In this interview, Jeff and I talk about:

Jeff really knows what he's talking about and I learned loads in this fascinating conversation.

Jeff's "Books for a Brighter Future":

His "Song for a Brighter Future":

You'll find Jeff's book exclusively on Amazon here:

If you want to get in touch with Jeff, his details are:

LinkedIn

Website

I hope you enjoy the episode!